Meanings
plural dot-coms
- InternetalternativeAlternative form of dotcom.
Dot-com companies are different from the traditional 'brick and mortar' in many ways ...
2001, Banking & Finance, Academic Foundation, →ISBN, page 46
present singular third person dot-coms · participle present dot-comming · participle past dot-commed · past dot-commed
- InternetalternativeAlternative form of dotcom.
In July 1999, while I was dot-comming in Virginia, Governor Bush went to Indianapolis, home of Mayor Stephen Goldsmith's “Front Porch Alliance.”
2006, David Kuo, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, →ISBN2 more examples
Check to see if your name—or any Web site name you pick—has been dot-commed yet at any of several Web sites that oversee domain-name registration, such as ...
2001, Samantha Miller, E-Mail Etiquette, →ISBNWhen I landed in New York, I went straight to work—finding the refi boom accelerating at an exponential rate. In 2000, Americans had dot-commed themselves to death; in 2001, they were mortgaging themselves to death.
2010, Jordan Belfort, Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna company that operates its business primarily on the internet using a URL that ends in ‘.com’
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
dot-com. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dot-com
“dot-com.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dot-com. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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